The 20th annual Costume Designer Guild Awards (CDGA) were handed out tonight and I, Tonya took home the prize of Excellence in Contemporary Film while The Handmaid’s Tale won for Excellence in Contemporary TV.

Hosted by Jane the Virgin star Gina Rodriguez, the ceremony also honored Kerry Washington with the Spotlight Award as well as Guillermo del Toro with the Distinguished Collaborator Award. Oscar-nominated costume designer Joanna Johnston was given the Career Achievement Award while Star Wars costume designer John Mollo was inducted into the CDG Hall of Fame. The evening ended with Oscar-nominated Joanna Johnston receiving the Career Achievement Award from Kathleen Kennedy and a surprise appearance from Sally Field, who Johnston worked with on Lincoln and Forrest Gump.

The Shape of Water beat out Phantom Thread for Excellence in Period Film while winners on the TV side include The Crown and Game of Thrones.

Scoring a CDGA isn’t necessarily a barometer for an Oscar win — but it doesn’t hurt. The guild’s film winners only have struck Oscar gold in nine of the CDG Awards’ 20 years. Last year, La La Land and Hidden Figures won CDGAs, but the Oscar went to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. I, Tonya isn’t nominated for Best Costume Design at this year’s Oscars, but The Shape of Water is — which may bode well for the Oscar favorite.

Read the complete list of CDGA winners and read how everything went down at the ceremony below.

Career Achievement AwardJoanna Johnston

Excellence in Period FilmThe Shape of Water – Luis Sequeira

Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy FilmWonder Woman – Lindy Hemming

Spotlight AwardKerry Washington

Excellence in Contemporary FilmI, Tonya – Jennifer Johnson

Excellence in Short Form DesignP!NK: “Beautiful Trauma”, Music Video – Kim Bowen

“Costumes bring characters to life and help in finding and discovering who those characters are”

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Gina Rodriguez at tonight’s CDGA red carpet:

Our host for this evening’s #CDGA20 is actress, philanthropist, and producer @HereIsGina! pic.twitter.com/yBv8ro4Gcu

— CDGA (@CostumeAwards) February 21, 2018

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She gives a heartfelt shoutout to her Jane The Virgin costume designer Rachel Sage Kunin, who dressed her for tonight.

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…and as we all know, Rodriguez won a Golden Globe for her role in Jane the Virgin in 2015.

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Rachel Sage Kunin has also done costume design for Dallas and Longmire.

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Scoring a CDG Award doesn’t necessarily mean a guaranteed Oscar win — but it doesn’t hurt. The guild’s film winners only have struck Oscar gold in nine of the CDG Awards’ 18 years.

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Last year La La Land and Hidden Figures won CDG Awards, but the Oscar went to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

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Rachel Brosnahan and Marin Hinkle give out the first award.

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First winner of the evening:

Excellence in Contemporary Television

The Handmaid’s Tale – Ane Crabtree

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“Damnit I wanted to be awesome up here” Carbtree says, stunned at her win.

Giving a shoutout to #MeToo and Times Up “It’s a great time to be a woman and it’s a great time to be a multicultural woman… to every brown skin little girl or boy, if you have a dream, dream big.”

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Ane Crabtree was also nominated for an Emmy for her work on The Handmaid’s Tale.

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She was also previously nominated for a CDGA for her work on Westworld, Pan Am, and Masters of Sex.

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CDG president Salvador Perez addresses the crowd: “Our government is trying to disband unions but we must stand together”

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This year’s Distinguished Service Award is going to jeweler and metalworker Maggie Schpak. The award recognizes a person whose specialties and talents contribute to the craft and art of costume design.

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“I really thought I was just going to get a little plaque, this is really cool,” says Schpak during her acceptance speech.

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Schpak worked on pieces worn by Vulcans in the earlier Star Trek movies.

“Costumes are a way we present ourselves to the world and engage in who we are so it can’t be a blank statement… It this sacred partner where you help the story and the actor. “

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Up next is…Excellence in Short Form Design presented by Sarah Hyland.

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WINNER

Excellence in Short Form DesignP!NK: “Beautiful Trauma”, Music Video – Kim Bowen

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They certainly are breezing through this ceremony!

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WINNER

Excellence in Contemporary Film

I, Tonya – Jennifer Johnson

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This is Johnson’s first CDGA nom and win! She was also nominated for a BAFTA for I, Tonya.

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The win for the figure skating centric film is appropriate considering we are neck deep in the Olympics.

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Taking a moment to thank the sponsors: Rodriguez thanked Amazon Prime “who I have to thank for making lose a month of my life binging The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”

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Eva Longoria is presenting the next statue

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Eva Longoria is presenting the next statue

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She’s presenting Kerry Washington with the Spotlight Award, which honors an actor whose talent and career personify an enduring commitment to excellence, including a special awareness of the role and importance of costume design.

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“When I grow up I want to be just like Kerry Washingon. But there’s a big problem, she just too much… she’s the most genuine person in this business and just a kickass woman,” lauded Longoria.

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Last year’s honoree was Lily Collins.

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The year before Collins was the immaculate Cate Blanchett.

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Needless to say, this Spotlight Award has a glamorous track record…especially now with the the gorgeous Kerry Washington.

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Lyn Paolo, Scandal’s costume designer, getting emotional “I have had a great seven seasons with Ms. Washington. You would all be blessed to work with her if you get the opportunity… I’m sad it’s over. You love of costumes and the process of storytelling, all that is self-evident in your body of work…I can’t wait to see what you do next.”

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Seriously, here she is accepting the Spotlight Award.

“I don’t know who a character is until I know what shoes she wears.” –@kerrywashington accepting the Spotlight Award at #CDGA20 #KerryWashington pic.twitter.com/NwM3JtiE4J

— CDGA (@CostumeAwards) February 21, 2018

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Side note: Lyn Paolo has been nominated three times for CDGAs; once for The West Wing and twice for Scandal.

Washington, “I don’t really know who a character is until I know what shoes she wears… I have relied on the wisdom and genius of costume designers my whole career.”

She continued, “The opportunity for partnership is such a blessing.” Speaking to Paolo,”we have cried together in fittings. We’re stood by each other’s side when we heard that the network was going to create a clothing line inspired by Olivia Pope, Lyn and I stood together and said “not without us’… We wanted to move the audience to a deeper truth because we know that a pair of shoes can do that.”

“You guys allow us to be most vulnerable… thank you for allowing us to be the artist that we are and giving us a safe place.”

Dino-Ray RamosFebruary 20, 20189:43 pm

Up next is… Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film presented by Tony Hale and Anna Camp.

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WINNER

Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film

Wonder Woman – Lindy Hemming

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Hemming won a CDGA in 2009 for The Dark Knight and was nominated twice before that. She also won an Oscar in 2000 for Topsy-Turvy.

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WINNER

Excellence in Period Film

The Shape of Water – Luis Sequeira

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(By the way…Rufus Sewell presented the award for Excellence in Period Film)

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“I truly have nothing prepared, my apologies,” Sequeira joked. “I just want to say, all of this is a gift. There are so many people in the world that work an entire lifetime hating what they do.. and we get to do what we love.”

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Was honestly surprised that Shape of Water won. I was expecting Phantom Thread to win considering it’s a movie about fashion and all.

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This is Sequeira’s first CDGA nomination and win!

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Last award of the night…

The incredible Kathleen Kennedy is here to present the Career Achievement Award to Oscar-nominated costume designer Joanna Johnston! #CDGA20 pic.twitter.com/YcLH7bMEkq

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Joanna Johnston is a two-time Oscar nominee. She received nods for Allied and Lincoln.

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She was nominated for a CDGA in 2003 for ABout a Boy and then again in 2013 for Lincoln.

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Kennedy praises her frequent costume designer collaborator Johnston for her “instinctive grasp of the vital role of costume design.”

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Well this was a pleasant surprise…

Surprise! @sally_field takes the stage to present Joanna Johnston with the #CDGA20 Career Achievement Award! pic.twitter.com/PeesXQKzwS

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Johnston was the costume designer on Forrest Gump and Lincoln, which both stars Sally Field.

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Sally Field on deck and brought along with the pink sweater she wore in Forrest Gump and a quilt with the fabrics from Lincoln costumes, both from the two times, she’s worked with Johnston.

“I cherish every single moment that I have worked with my brilliant friend Joanna Johnston.”

Amanda N’DukaFebruary 20, 201810:03 pm

Johnston, “This will be brief because I know you all want to go to bed – or another bar.” Thank you Johnston.

Johnston thanks Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis: ” between the two, have taken me on a journey of discovery… because of them I have often been on the cusp of new technology… it had enriched my career”

“For me, costume design is telling the story without the words… I feel very lucky to be a part of the stories that have come my way.”

Amanda N’DukaFebruary 20, 201810:07 pm

That’s all folks.

Dino-Ray RamosFebruary 20, 201810:07 pm

So that is a wrap on the 20th Costume Designers Guild Awards! See y’all next year!

Amanda N’DukaFebruary 20, 201810:11 pm

Johnston thanks Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis: “The two have taken me on a journey of discovery… because of them I have often been on the cusp of new technology… it has enriched my career”

“For me, costume design is telling the story without the words… I feel very lucky to be a part of the stories that have come my way.”

“I feel like I need to address something that happened Sunday night at the NBA All-Star Game,” Jimmy Kimmel said on his late-night show, after he was caught on tape during Fergie’s much-mocked performance of the national anthem at the event.

“Somehow, I became a part of a National Anthem fiasco. Fergie, the singer from the Black Eyed Peas, gave an unusually sultry version of our National Anthem,” he explained.

And I wound up in the middle of it. I just want to say, the reason I was smiling is because I love the National Anthem so much. That’s the face I make when I really love a song.”

“That was some arrangement though,” Kimmel said, joking, “In hindsight, trying to work in the words ‘my humps my humps, my lovely lady lumps’ may have been a mistake.”

Kimmel said he did not realize he was on camera until his phone started buzzing with text messages.

Fergie, meanwhile, apologized for her performance, saying she tried her best, and had decided to sing the song that way because she is a “risk taker.”

“Here’s the thing about taking risks when it comes to the national anthem. Don’t,” Kimmel advised.

“Don’t take risks when you’re doing brain surgery, don’t take risks driving a school bus, or singing the national anthem. Just regular is fine,” he suggested.

Fergie did not need to apologize, because she did not intentionally try to ruin the song, Kimmel argued, adding, “In Fergie’s defense, we don’t know what Francis Scott Key was thinking when he wrote ‘The Star Spangled Banner.’ Maybe he wanted it to be sexy.”

A new study from Women’s Media Center has found “little progress” for women nominees in this year’s non-acting Oscar race, with 77% of all behind-the-scenes nominations going to men.

“Despite a concerted push by women and their allies to achieve greater representation for females in all parts of the film industry,” the report states, “the percentage of women barely inched up to 23% from 20% last year in the 19 major non-acting categories that feature writing, editing, producing, and directing roles.” Read the full report here.

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Women were totally shut out of three categories this year: Original Score, Sound Editing and Visual Effects. In all of Oscar history, only five women have ever been nominated for original score, and only one in the past 10 years – Mica Levi for Jackie.

“Once again this year, there are no female nominees for Visual Effects,” the report states. “Female VFX supervisors worked on only 5% of the 250 top-grossing films in 2014, and the numbers do not appear to be improving.” No women were nominated this year for Sound Editing, and in the past ten years, only eight of the 99 nominees in the category were females – including three last year.

The report, however, did note an Oscar nomination breakthrough for women – and a woman – this year when Mudbound’s Rachael Morrison made history by becoming the first female cinematographer to receive a nomination in 90 years of the Oscars.

“Rachel Morrison shattered the glass ceiling for women nominees in cinematography, and we applaud her historic achievement. We are also proud of the efforts of all women who continue to break barriers in the film industry, despite systemic cultural and institutional bias,” said Julie Burton, president of the Women’s Media Center, which was founded in 2005 by Jane Fonda, Gloria Steinem and author Robin Morgan.

And Lady Bird writer-director Greta Gerwig became only the fifth woman ever nominated for Best Director, and the first since Kathryn Bigelow, who was nominated and won in 2009 for The Hurt Locker. Four films directed by women have been nominated for Best Picture since 2009, but none of the women received director nominations. And if Gerwig wins, she’ll become the first woman ever to win a Best Director award for a film she also wrote.

In the Best Picture race, eight women producers were nominated – down from last year’s 10-year high of nine women nominated. This year, women represent 27% of the Best Picture nominees, compared to 30% last year. “This is especially disappointing, considering five of the nine films nominated for Best Picture star or costar a female lead, and four of them have Best Actress nominations,” the report states. “This represents an unusually strong year for female-driven films. The last time there were four Best Picture contenders featuring Best Actress nominees was 2012. There are 22 men and eight women producers nominated this year, compared to 21 men and nine women last year.”

In the writing categories, all four of the female nominees are first-time nominees. This year three of the seven nominees for Best Original Screenplay are women – up from zero last year. The last time there were three female nominees in the category was in 2007. In the Adapted Screenplay category, only one of the nine nominees is a woman.

Women made “the most impressive gains” in the Animated Feature category, the report found – up from just 17% last year to 46% this year. “This is due primarily to two films in the category having been directed by women. It is extremely rare for there to be any female directors at all in this category, and to have two in the same year is by far a 10-year high. With three female producing nominees, that brings the total to five, up from two last year. Only two women have ever won in the category since its inception in 2001.”

The percentage of women nominated for Production Design increased from 30% to 33%, and the songwriting category showed major improvement for women, up from zero last year to four this year. But only one of nominees for Best Editing is a woman – the same as last year; and only one of the nominees for Best Sound Mixing is a woman – also the same as last year.

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The report found that there was “no significant change” for women producers or directors in the Documentary Feature category. Four women were nominated in the category for the second year in a row, with three producers and one director, while nine men were nominated. In the Documentary Short category, women dropped from 50% of the nominees last year to 38% this year.

The report found that women “continue to be underrepresented” in the Live Action Short category, with just 25% of the nominees this year being female — one director and one producer. But that was up from 12% last year.

Women gained slightly, however, in the Animated Short category, rising from 12% of the nominees last year to 20% this year. Two women were nominated alongside eight men, compared to one woman last year and seven men.

Female nominees in Makeup and Hairstyling increased to 33% this year compared to 14% a year ago. But women dropped to 50% percent of the nominees in the Costume Design category, with two nominations this year compared to all five last year.

“Over the past year,” Burton said, “many brave women have stepped forward to tell stories of pervasive sexual harassment and worse in the film industry, forcing the nation to realize how little power women have had in Hollywood and sparking new demands for change. The absence of women in critical behind-the-scenes roles – and the fact that men represent 77% of all nominees – means that women in the industry are missing opportunities for recognition and power. The larger society is deprived of women’s voices, perspectives, and creativity. At a time when women are demanding more power and visibility, these low numbers should be a wakeup call for Hollywood executives. The message is ‘Times up for inequality.’ ”

Here are some graphics included in the report; note that numbers are rounded up and therefore might exceed 100%:

French composer Alexandre Desplat arrived on the Hollywood scene in 2003-04 with back-to-back movies Girl With the Pearl Earring and Birth. Since then, the town has only asked him for more, spellbound by his ability to canvass various distinctive melodic styles, making them intrinsic and organic to a given film on screen.

Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water marks the ninth original score Oscar nomination for Desplat following such great movies as The Queen, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The King’s Speech, Argo, Philomena, The Imitation Game, and The Grand Budapest Hotel. For quite some time, the question begged by awards pundits was “Why on earth hasn’t Alexandre Desplat won an Oscar already?”

Desplat would humbly explain it was because he wrote understated scores: ““It’s not about what’s a good or bad score at the Oscars, rather what’s exposed to the ears more…There aren’t that many understated scores that have won in the last 10 years. It’s not easy to write an understated score over a loud one.”

The last time he was nominated in 2015 was for The Imitation Game and Grand Budapest Hotel, and rather than cancel himself out, Desplat won for the latter, a rollicking, toe-tapping Hungarian bonanza, and, yes, as the maestro would couch, “a loud score.” While Desplat waited several years to win, that shouldn’t be a problem this year as many voters are not only hooked on The Shape of Water (it counts the most nominations at 13) but also the film’s romantic whistling waltz which encompasses Sally Hawkins’ mute Elisa and Doug Jones’ Amphibian man.

Desplat came to know del Toro through his productions Rise of the Guardians and the series Trollhunters, both of which the composer worked on.

In regards to how their collaboration on The Shape of Water began, Desplat says, “Two years ago, we had sushi together and he said I want to talk with you about fish.”

Desplat tells us more about Shape of Water and his career in the latest Crew Call.

Stephen Colbert, in his first Late Show broadcast since the latest school mass shooting, said he was “sickened and heartbroken” not only by the attack but by what he feared would be a complete lack of action by political leaders.

Sure enough, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida gave a speech saying that “if someone has decided ‘I’m going to commit this crime’ they’re going to find a way to do it,” by way of explaining his opposition to gun control/background check measures.

“If laws are useless, then why do we need you?” Colbert asked Rubio. “It seems like a houseplant would do a better job, and need a little less water,” he snarked, playing a clip of Rubio’s infamous water-bottle break while delivering the GOP response to Obama’s 2013 SOTU address.

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The only group that gives Colbert hope we can do something to protect children from gun violence “sadly is the children,” he said, noting that when students from the shot-up school saw their leaders do nothing, they responded, “Hold my root beer.”

More than just talk, the students have organized a series of walkouts at schools and a march in Washington D.C. And, hours before Colbert taped his show, the students bused to Tallahassee to beg their lawmakers to reinstate the assault weapons ban. “And, with these students watching from the gallery, legislators proved they hears their anguished cries – and voted ‘no’ anyway,” Colbert scoffed.

“I hope these kids don’t give up, because this is their lives and their future. There is reason for hope,” he assured them. “Look at the #MeToo movement. A lot of men in power did not see that coming, but it proved change can happen overnight. And this is an election year.”

“So if you want to see change, you have to go to the polls and tell the people who will not protect children that their time is up.”

The Fox News Channel is expanding their reach in the news world with Fox Nation, a standalone subscription service that will be available to those without a cable package. Fox News is expected to make the official announcement Tuesday.

According to the New York Times, the service is slated to launch at the end of the year and will be on brand with Fox News commentary which, as many people know, leans right. Fox Nation will also include original shows and appearances from Fox News mainstays like Sean Hannity.

John Finley, who oversees program development and production for Fox News, said in an interview with the NYT: “Fox Nation is designed to appeal to the Fox superfan. These are the folks who watch Fox News every night for hours at a time, the dedicated audience that really wants more of what we have to offer.”

The new service will not overlap with Fox News and their broadcast. Although there will be recognizable faces, Fox Nation will include a new roster of anchors and commentators as well as new programming.

Black Panther has been out for less than a week and in addition to breaking box office records, audiences cannot stop talking about it. More than that, directors, actors, CEOs and former First Ladies have been praising the Marvel Studios Afrofuturistic wonder.

Since opening on Thursday night, there has been a non-stop flood of tweets giving high marks to the Ryan Coogler-directed movie starring Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, and Danai Gurira. Beyond being a film, Black Panther proves to be a big step in inclusion for Hollywood and beyond, putting the spotlight on marginalized communities in a way that has never been done before.

One of the most notable tweet review came from former First Lady Michelle Obama gave her review of the movie saying that she loved it and how it will “inspire people of all backgrounds to dig deep and find the courage to be heroes of their own stories.”

Congrats to the entire #blackpanther team! Because of you, young people will finally see superheroes that look like them on the big screen. I loved this movie and I know it will inspire people of all backgrounds to dig deep and find the courage to be heroes of their own stories.

— Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) February 19, 2018

And of course, Queen Oprah Winfrey, who probably has enough resources to build a Wakanda of her own, chimed in with her two cents, calling it “phenomenal.”

Just saw it with Stedman. It’s Phenomenal!! Layers and layers of it. Wakunda ForEveeeerrrr! #BlackPanther

— Oprah Winfrey (@Oprah) February 18, 2018

Disney head honcho Bob Iger was so pleased with Black Panther‘s performance, recognizing that it is not only raking in the numbers at the box office, but is a powerful piece of storytelling that “touches hearts, bridges cultures” and “opens minds.”

Boseman’s MCU peers came out to show their support…

…and Ant-Man and the Wasp director Peyton Reed showed his support in a very clever way.

As the star of Deadpool, Ryan Reynolds is MCU adjacent (for now). Nonetheless, he urged people to “believe of the hype.”

Stand up comedian Kevin Froleiks crafted this clever — and hilarious — Get Out-centric tweet about the film…

…and it was immediately noticed by Get Out director Jordan Peele and actor Bradley Whitford.

By the time I see #BlackPanther again tonight (including the premiere) it will be my 3rd time seeing it. What number are you guys on?

— Cheo Hodari Coker (@cheo_coker) February 17, 2018

After that #Blackpanther opening? They better not cast Cleopatra with anything but a sista. That God’s of Egypt shit is dead. Period. And Ruth Carter needs to fit Idris for his James Bond tux right now…

— Cheo Hodari Coker (@cheo_coker) February 19, 2018

Read more Black Panther tweets from Ava DuVernay, Viola Davis, Kerry Washington, Barry Jenkins and more below — but I’m sure that won’t be the end of it. There will probably be more tweets in the days to come.

BLACK PANTHER is PEAK double consciousness. It’s a Marvel movie, sure. And a blockbuster, absolutely, covers those bases and covers them well. But a film that features that vegetarian bit? Or Kilmonger’s last line? Ryan’s made two movies at once. And he crushed them both ????????

— Barry Jenkins (@BarryJenkins) February 18, 2018

Saw #BlackPanther last night. Wonderful that a mega-budget super hero movie has finally been made written/directed by and starring black people. But movie is exceptional for far more reasons than that. Plot, themes, heartfelt emotion, all outstanding.

It’s that time of year again: Street closures are looming in the run-up to the Academy Awards. And, as always, Hollywood’s Big Night will be Hollywood’s Big Nightmare traffic-wise.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the City of Los Angeles are out with the final list of closures around Hollywood & Highland, whose Dolby Theatre will stage the Oscars on March 4.

With fan bleachers and press risers under construction and the red carpet being prepped, Hollywood Boulevard will be closed between Highland Avenue and Orange Drive beginning at 10 PM Sunday, February 25, and remain closed until 6 AM Wednesday March 7. Additional streets and sidewalks will be closed for varying periods starting this Sunday (see map below).

As for mass transit, MTA subway trains will bypass the Hollywood & Highland station after the last regularly scheduled train on Saturday, March 3, until 6 AM Monday, March 5. Service at the station will resume with the first scheduled train after 6 AM.

Here is a map of the street closures for Oscar Day, March 3. For maps detailing closures on specific days in the lead-up to the ceremony, click here: